Just a city tree (Sketch of the Week for Week 46 of 2025)

I can never decide if these little guys are extremely sad, or sort of inspiring. They’re stunted and twisted by their constraints, but also tenacious despite insurmountable concrete limitations.

Pencil sketch of a little city tree next to a planter and a parking sign

If you’re looking at this, you’re almost by definition just a twisty little city tree like me. And, now that I think about it, probably that tree—which I’ve regularly walked past for maybe 30 years now—doesn’t have too high an opinion of me: I could literally go anywhere in the world, and haven’t gotten any farther than he has.

What a fucking judgy-ass tree, amirght? Fuck him.